Dr. Lucy Gasser teaches Anglophone literature and cultural studies at the University of Potsdam and is co–founder of the online platform for postcolonial literature poco.lit. Since the beginning of 2021 she has been responsible for the conception and content design of the project macht.sprache.
The project has developed an app and browser extension to promote politically sensitive translations between English and German. Lucy is from Cape Town, South Africa and has been living in Berlin since 2014.